Floundering with Flounder

First of all, I have to say I have such great admiration for John Travolta and his accomplishments and contributions, I feel so much sorrow for his tremendous loss and hope that somehow he can come to terms with this in a way that is best for him and his family.  It absolutely breaks my heart to hear about the loss of children and loved ones.  God bless and peace be with them all.

Groceries:

The results of our grocery trip was a definite reduction to our bank account. The end result of trying to eat healthy and clean.  We might live longer but we’ll have no money to do anything with.  

Unbelievable as it may seem, I was ready to eat upon return from the grocery store. Since I had 1/2 of an Ezekiel English Muffin left from yesterday’s breakfast, I decided to make a mini pizza out of it.

Ezekiel Muffin Pizza

What did this little beauty consist of? Well let me tell…

• 1/2 Ezekiel English Muffin
• 1 TBS Fire Roasted Salsa
• Left Over Tempeh Slices
• 1 TBS Cabot’s 50% Reduced Fat Shredded Cheddar

I toasted it in our little toaster oven until the cheese was nicely dark brown (the way I like it). Also had the left over veg and a few more pcs. of Tempeh (that wouldn’t fit on my muffin).

Broiled Flounder with a Saucy Surprise

Ted ate WAY too much meat over the past couple of days so I’m punishing him (in his mind) with fish. We had fresh flounder (at least we THINK it was fresh – hard to tell from the grocery store. We don’t live by the ocean you know).   Here’s the flounderish fixings:

 

• 1 lb Fresh Flounder Fillets
• 1 TBS Lemon Juice
• 1/4 cup grated cheese
• 1 TBS Hummus
• 1 TBS SMARTBALANCE
• Pinch Salt
• 2 Green Onions, chopped
• Dash hot sauce
• Fresh Dill and also some for garnish

5 minute flounder

 

Preheat the oven to broil.  Place fish in oven proof dish that you have either sprayed with non stick or buttered well.  *I drizzled infused olive oil on bottom of foil lined pan.  Mix together the cheese, hummus, SMART BALANCE, salt (you may not even need this salt), onions, hot sauce and set aside for 5 minutes.  Go ahead and put that fish in the oven for about 5 minutes. While the fish broils, simply heat the cheese-hummus mix in the microwave for 25 seconds or so just to soften so it’s easily spreadable. Remove the fish from the oven when ready and spread your mixture of cheese, hummus, etc. on top. Put the fish back under broil for another minute. 

Wasn’t that just the easiest way to cook flounder?! Great job!

We had green beans with a little splash of lemon and fresh dill to accompany the fish. 

Sunday Evening Flounder Dinner

It’s back to a normal work week tomorrow. There is still alot to do to get 2008 closed…paperwork, paperwork, and more paperwork.  So… when’s the next holiday?

Have a great night! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mushy Banana

Great football game last night!  Unfortunately, I was rootin’ for Indianapolis. Ted and I both dozed in and out of the game but woke up to catch the exciting end. 

Before that… you just can’t believe how blogging ignorant I am!  I was clicking on the “Sticky” option which made all my blogs remain on the home page. This, if you noticed, slowed the site down tremendously. Yesterday…. I spent over an hour UN-STICKING every blog since October. Unbelievable. I’m like those guys that think they can assemble everything without reading the directions. Ugg….what a tedious task that was. So anyway, you should find that the site loads a bit quicker.

I was SO looking forward to going for one of our long walks this morning but the cold, cold temperatures reappeared and only allowed us a very short run down the road and back, 2.35 miles.  Good news was that Shane’s feet didn’t freeze up. Bad news was that my fingers did.

We came home, I went downstairs to do 20 minutes of rowing. Ted’s turn outside in the cold with Shane. He took him out to play some frisbee in the snow. They lasted about 15 minutes.  Ted is able to wrap up in a way that keeps him warm. I can’t. There just aren’t enough sweaters, coats, thermals, pants, gloves, nor hats that will work to keep my body warm in single digit weather. I have to run like a mad woman and work up a sweat before my body parts begin to feel any heat.   Enough about that… this is how we initiated then fed our energies today.

Naturally More Peanut Butter on 1/2 Banana

 

 Now we had 3 bananas that were definitely looking pretty ugly.  Ted and I shared one.  The other two were committed to becoming the key ingredient in 

Banana Pancakes

• 2 cups Heart Healthy Bisquick

• 1 2/3 cups Soymilk

• 2 Eggs, slightly beaten

• 1 tsp Apple Pie Spice

• 1 3/4 cup (2) smashed bananas. Leaving 1/4 of a banana for chopped pcs. to top cakes.

Add the first 4 ingredients, whip well. Add the smashed banana. Heat your grill pan. Add SmartBalance, let it get hot and pour in your first 4 cakes. Proceed with the rest of the batter in the same manner.

 

Just cooked stack of Banana Pancakes(waiting for the rest of the group).

 

As for me, oh so predictable. But I DID change my wkend. omelet a little. I have taken to cooking egg yolks for Shane, the finicky eater among us, as he seems to really like them. I use the egg whites for my own egg meal. So today’s omelet was an egg white, broccoli, spinach one, with reduced fat feta (lots of it) and hot sauce.

Egg White Omelete

Now it’s off to the grocery store to restock. Hope we find something so great that it overwhelms us with excitement. Doubtful. See you later – have a super, pooper Sunday.

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